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January 30, 2025
New Jersey is home to more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
January 29, 2025
Pointy jester shoes were what all the fancy gentlemen wore in the 1400s.
January 28, 2025
Fortune-telling is banned in Yamhill, Oregon, so don't expect a glimpse into your future there.
January 27, 2025
In 2024, the British government issued an official passport for Paddington Bear.
Sunday cartoon! - January 26, 2025
"Groaking" is watching people eat in the hope they'll share their food.
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster," a custom Telecaster with a real, preserved piranha sealed in resin!
Food
A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
August 13, 2026
In 1980, Minoru Yoshida completed 10,507 nonstop push-ups.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
